LIBS 132: Engaging Communities

Course Description

This course studies concepts of community and service within American culture. It traces the development of civic life in the U. S. by examining the promises and challenges of community and citizenship, especially questions of inclusion and exclusion in American civic life. Students are expected to engage in some form of active citizenship with this question in mind: What individual and collective actions are most effective in making our communities into places in which each person can thrive?